If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
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Related We have not lost our way, our way has lost us.... GAELIC PROVERB We have not lost our way, our way has lost us.... GAELIC PROVERB When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
(In spite of all the virtue we can boast),
The ... JOSEPH ADDISON Coal production peaked in 1990, and we lost 40 percent of our production, which meant we lost 40 per... BILL CAYLOR Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts! SAUL GORN We had way too many days off. We lost our rhythm. We lost our feel. AL HARRINGTON Secrets are a part of life. Their mysteries make our world beautiful. Their depths inspire our heart... IMANIA MARGRIA We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope. CECELIA AHERN We let them dictate the tempo and lost our focus. We lost our focus and let things bother us. DAVE PETTIT We really lost it in the second half, defensively. We lost our intensity. We gave them some wide-ope... HEATHER MCADAMS The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money. BENJAMIN JOWETT We lost all our landmarks. All our icons. JOE ZANGHI In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON This was huge. If we had lost, we would have lost our chance to win the Big North. CORBIN DONALDSON We lost our Alan so senselessly. And we just don't understand it. I mean, this happens to other peop... CATHY KRUSE We understand very clearly that it's a challenging point in time and place right now. We have lost o... ANGELE DAVIS We understand very clearly that it's a challenging point in time and place right now. We have lost o... ANGELE DAVIS "To live the life of our choice" may be the dream of many but the real selection and actualisation o... ANUJ SOMANY He (Mendoza) should not have been open. We lost sight of our coverage. MILKO VASQUEZ After their second goal, we looked like we had already lost and there was still 25 minutes left. We ... SARA ATUAIA We lost our bona fide closer and our No. 1 guy. MANNY ACTA We played well for the most part tonight. But we lost some of our focus late and let them get back i... ANTYRIO RAIMER In those moments of unnaming when we have lost ourselves, we must remember to return to our past red... DAN B. ALLENDER Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? MELINA MARCHETTA If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Livin... TARA BRACH The best part of our love is when our hearts talk. JIM GENOVESE Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost. ROBERT DODSON Tragically, two years ago, we came once more to realize that we had let our guard down. We became lo... CHARLES CAMARDA Somewhere along the way, we seem to have lost our 'can do' spirit. ANSON CHAN I lost a big part of me. That's what inspired me to take our music outside. ALVIN LEE To regain our lost years, we must be ready to change our negative mindset, attitudes, habits and pat... SUNDAY ADELAJA We just totally lost our composure. GREGG FORD We understand very clearly that it's a challenging point in time and place right now. We have lost o... ANGELE DAVIS We are what we remember. If we lose our memory, we lose our identity and our identity is the accumul... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it. SOURCE UNKNOWN When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it. SOURCE UNKNOWN I believe each of us is a pilgrim in our own way; we are all lost souls, trying to find our way home... SETH ADAM SMITH It’s that time of the year again, when we celebrate the lost souls. A tribute to all lost soul who... LILY CHATTERJEE We lost our history. It's like the Mastercard ad: What we lost was priceless. DAVID GRAVES We slowed it down to our tempo, played our game. We just lost it in the overtime. SEAN GEORGES It is a crisis of lost churches, lost funds and lost unity brought on by the actions of our national... BOB THOMPSON That is how we can do our part in keeping our youth safe and sober. JANE ALLEVA We lost our head for few minutes and Rapid punished us. COSMIN OLAROIU If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill ... TARA BRACH My wife and I lost 90 percent of our life savings. FORREST BOMAR When we lost those cheerleaders we had to change our whole routine. That really took a lot of the di... HEATHER ROSE We all have to get our hope from somewhere, and if getting lost between the pages of a deep book giv... EMMA HART When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and min... DEAN ORNISH We almost drowned in our house. We just moved here from Florida to get away from the hurricanes. We ... LINDA BOLDT We lost our intensity in the second quarter. BILL MCELROY Now, our team is talented but very young. We lost a number of really good players and it takes time ... FLOYD REESE We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience. KILROY J. OLDSTER We fortunately never lost our radio communication. JAMES HARTMAN Our question mark is in the back. We lost a few and our goalie. We are young in the back, but talent... CHRIS SHAW We politely argued our case, but we lost. BARRY KERN That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reach... BARACK OBAMA I'd say we lost between 25 and 30 percent of our business. JEFF BUTLER Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Vernal came out more physical in the second game, and we sort of lost our cool. That took us out of ... DARIN HICKEY We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't al... THICH NHAT HANH We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't al... NHAT HANH Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need t... JEWEL Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to H... BOBBY JINDAL We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Many of our people have lost their homes. BRUCE JONES We've lost a third of our corporate contributions. BOB PARKER If we would've lost, we would've gone home; that would've been the end of our season. But, of course... MARCUS JOHNSON It comes back to that basic problem of people who are lost to our normal systems of care and communi... ELIZABETH PATTERSON I'm not disappointed in our team. I'm disappointed we lost the game, ... Our guys put in a tremendou... BOBBY PETRINO Our model is more 'The Little Engine That Could. We've sort of lost our faith in the power of magic. MARIA TATAR This is a very sad day for the Blackwater family, ... We lost a number of our friends to attacks by ... GARY JACKSON This is a very sad day for the Blackwater family, ... We lost a number of our friends to attacks by ... GARY JACKSON If we let all the negative roadblocks influence us then it's only a matter of time before we end up ... LINDSEY RIETZSCH Somehow in the locker room we lost our intensity. Defense is so important to us. When our intensity ... JEFF HAWES We lost everything. We even won our own constituency. MARYON PEARSON We just lost our composure when we were tired. DAVE HANSEN If our form of expression comes out of blatant robbery then we as the messenger are open for justifi... DANIEL SMITH Our backs are to the wall. We dropped two games we shouldn't have lost. DAVID JORDAN We lost to them last time and had to play Neillsville and went and beat them and hadn't lost since. ... DAVE MACARTHUR It is sort of disappointing for my players to see that our players lost so quickly. I just tell our ... GLENN WHITE This was our family home since 1969. We lost our first house in Hurricane Camille, just across the s... BRIAN MOLLERE I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But ... ALEXANDRA KERRY We must love someone. We must keep loving, all our days, Someone, anyone, anywhere Outside our selve... RUSKIN BOND If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with... JARON LANIER I hope we can find our jump shot. It seems like we lost it tonight. LARRY KRUSE And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans hav... JOHN LINDER Our state of mind defines our character, whether it is or not socially acceptable toward others.This... SAAIF ALAM Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves... HENRY DAVID THOREAU In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least healt... BETHANY MCLEAN All love is bittersweet. Love is inexplicable; it is part poetry and part masochism. Part of love is... KILROY J. OLDSTER We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life. CRAIG GROESCHEL Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination? CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. TERRY BROOKS The idea of effecting change has been lost in the hearts of many students. Look at the war. We can t... ADEEL IQBAL Our kids lost their poise, DAN ROBINSON In a couple of days after our arrival, it already became clear that our things were lost forever and... SAHARA SANDERS Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but ... TALIA SHIRE When I go back, life won't be like it was. If we're lucky, our roofs are still on and our houses did... AMY WILSON Well, the mile-and-a-half tracks were the bread and butter of our team and organization (Robert Yate... DALE JARRETT It's going to be a youth movement for us this year, as it usually is at this level. We like the make... BOB DENBROCK
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